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This collection contains 200 + of the works of Ambrose Bierce, including short stories, fables, poetry, and non-fiction. The collection has been formatted for optimal viewing on the Nook and is equipped with an active table of contents for smooth navigation! The collection includes:

Fiction:

PRESENT AT A HANGING AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, INCLUDING:
The Ways Of Ghosts
Present At A Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest
A Man With Two Lives
Three And One Are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions
The Isle Of Pines
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine On A House
At Old Man Eckert’s
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
The Thing At Nolan
The Difficulty Of Crossing A Field
An Unfinished Race
Charles Ashmore’s Trail
Science To The Front

TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS, INCLUDING:
A Horseman In The Sky
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Chickamauga
A Son Of The Gods
One Of The Missing
Killed At Resaca
The Affair At Coulter's Notch
The Coup De Grâce
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
An Affair Of Outposts
The Story Of A Conscience
One Kind Of Officer
One Officer, One Man
George Thurston
The Mocking-Bird
The Man Out Of The Nose
The Famous Gilson Bequest
The Applicant
A Watcher By The Dead
The Man And The Snake
A Holy Terror
The Suitable Surroundings
The Boarded Window
A Lady From Redhorse
The Eyes Of The Panther

CAN SUCH THINGS BE? INCLUDING:
The Death Of Halpin Frayser
The Secret Of Macarger’s Gulch
One Summer Night
The Moonlit Road
A Diagnosis Of Death
Moxon’s Master
A Tough Tussle
One Of Twins
The Haunted Valley
Jo. Dunfer. Done For.
A Jug Of Sirup
Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
A Resumed Identity
A Baby Tramp
The Night-Doings At “Deadman’s”
Beyond The Wall
A Psychological Shipwreck
The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot
John Mortonson’s Funeral
The Realm Of The Unreal
John Bartine’s Watch
The Damned Thing
Haïta The Shepherd
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa
The Stranger

NEGLIGIBLE TALES, including:
A Bottomless Grave
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
The Widower Turmore
The City Of The Gone Away
The Major's Tale
Curried Cow
A Revolt Of The Gods
The Baptism Of Dobsho
The Race At Left Bower
The Failure Of Hope & Wandel
Perry Chumly's Eclipse
A Providential Intimation
Mr. Swiddler's Flip-Flap
The Little Story

THE FOURTH ESTATE, including:
Mr. Masthead, Journalist
Why I Am Not Editing "The Stinger"
Corrupting The Press
"The Bubble Reputation"

THE OCEAN WAVE, including:
A Shipwreckollection
The Captain Of "The Camel"
The Man Overboard
A Cargo Of Cat

"ON WITH THE DANCE!" A REVIEW
EPIGRAMS
ASHES OF THE BEACON
THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW
WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH
A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA
THE CRIME AT PICKETT’S MILL
FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE
WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN
‘WAY DOWN IN ALABAM’
WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS
ACROSS THE PLAINS
THE MIRAGE
A SOLE SURVIVOR
THE SONG
FANTASTIC FABLES (Collection of Fables)
COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL. (Collection of Fables and Fiction)

Poetry Collections:
BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER
SHAPES OF CLAY

Non-Fiction:
THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL AND OTHER ESSAYS
WRITE IT RIGHT
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

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